There seems to be an ingrained bias in menfolk against women. They are socially and linguistically constructed and are negatively, unjustly and unreasonably commented on by the parochial and tendentious men. They are malevolently dubbed with negative lexemes, brutalised and criminalised with epistemic violence by the shallow, sadist, and prejudiced men of the so-called just society.
If woman is spared from physical torture and torment, epistemic violence (violence and infliction of harm against the subjects through discourse) is meted out to her in its stead. Violence of one kind or the other against woman has a very old and sordid history. We have plethora of literary works by male writers in which they have defined woman in a derisory and uncomplimentary way.
Women have been verbally abused and slandered. Woman’s personality and character has been defined and dubbed through lexically denigrative terms and jaundiced metaphors. Some have questioned her fealty and loyalty.
Some have pictured her fickle and unreasonable with their camera obscura. Some have declared her brash and irrational. Ogden Nash – an American poet sweepingly comments in one of his poems, ‘women would rather be right than reasonable’.
St.Thomas Aquinas cynically remarks, “Woman is an imperfect man.” Oscar Wilde satirically states in one of his famed plays, ‘A Woman of No Importance’ that women are fascinatingly wilful sex.
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. .
